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Q: Was Jonah in the belly of the "great fish" for three days or for three thousand years?
A: There are many Christians who should believe he was in the fish for three thousand years—or longer—if they are consistent with how they approach Scripture.
Many Christians oppose the belief that God created in six literal days. They quote 2 Peter 3:8, "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years." On this basis, they say that the days of creation could be thousands of years. But if they were consistent, using this same logic, one could translate Jonah 2:17 this way:
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish THREE THOUSAND YEARS.
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish THREE THOUSAND YEARS.
This is nonsense, of course. The context does not allow for using this phrase from the New Testament to determine the meaning of the Hebrew word "day" in Genesis 1. Peter is simply pointing out that God is outside of time, and thus is not limited by natural processes and time.
Genesis shows clearly that God created everything in six literal days, which is exactly what the Hebrew words—in context—mean.
For more information on the length of the days in Genesis, see The necessity for believing in six literal days.
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From a superficial reading, the impression received is that the entire creative process took place in six twenty-four hour days. If this was the true intent of the Hebrew author (a questionable deduction, as will be presently shown), this seems to run counter to modern scientific research, which indicates that the planet Earth was created several billion years ago.
– Archer, G.L., A Survey of Old Testament Introduction, Moody, Chicago, p. 187, 1985.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A group of about 50 activists has staged a protest outside the doors of the House and Senate chamber while lawmakers met within.
The protesters sang, chanted and cheered on Monday afternoon about a series of issues ranging from support for Medicaid expansion to demands for changes to the state's voter ID law.
The noise drew the attention of lawmakers within the chamber, many of whom peeked out the back doors to investigate the sources of the disturbance. But they quickly returned their attention to pending bills.
Several Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Joe Towns and G.A. Hardaway of Memphis and Brenda Gilmore of Nashville, joined the circle of protesters.
Senate approves Haslam's free tuition plan
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam's signature proposal to create a program that would cover tuition at two-year colleges for any high school graduate is a step closer to the governor's desk.
The Senate approved the plan 30-1 on Monday. The companion bill was scheduled to be heard on the House floor.
Called "Tennessee Promise," the legislation is a cornerstone of Haslam's "Drive to 55" campaign to improve the state's graduation rates from the current 32 percent to 55 percent by 2025 to help improve overall job qualifications and attract employers to the state.
Haslam wants to pay for the program by using $300 million in excess lottery reserve funds and join it with a $47 million endowment.
One concern of higher education officials and lawmakers is making sure the plan is adequately funded.
Railroad bridge across Mississippi River reopens
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a railroad bridge spanning the Mississippi River has reopened after it was closed when a barge struck it.
According to The Commercial Appeal, Union Pacific railroad officials said Monday that the Harahan Bridge was open again after closing Sunday night.
About three miles of the river was closed for about a half-hour Sunday night after the barge hit the railroad bridge supports.
The bridge connects Memphis and West Memphis, Ark.
6 Tenn. sites added to National Register
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Six Tennessee sites have been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Register is the nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation.
The new sites in Tennessee are: the Grand Guitar in Bristol, the Tennessee Supreme Court Building in Nashville, Mead and Ross Marble Quarries in Knox County, the Martin-Dobyns House in Kingsport and the Blountville Historic District.
The Tennessee Historical Commission administers the program in Tennessee.
The district was listed in the Register in 1972. The revised nomination includes clarification of the areas of significance noted in the first nomination.
For more information about the Register or the Tennessee Historical Commission, visit www.tn.gov/environment/history.
Senate resolution honors MTSU president
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Middle Tennessee State University President Sidney McPhee was honored by the state Senate for an award he received in Beijing.
Lawmakers passed a resolution on Monday that recognized McPhee for being awarded "Person of the Year" honors at the eighth annual Global Confucius Institute Conference in December.
The award recognized the university's work to strengthen educational and cultural ties between China and the U.S.
The institute, named after the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius, is sponsored by China's Education Ministry to promote Chinese language and culture. It also organizes cultural tours, student exchanges and university partnerships.
MTSU joined with China's Hangzhou Normal University to open its institute in 2010. The institute has helped teach Chinese language and culture to more than 2,000 students in seven Tennessee counties.
Measure changes way charter schools authorized
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A proposal that changes the way certain charter schools are authorized is headed to the governor for his consideration.
The House on Monday agreed to technical changes made by the Senate, including changing the effective date to next school year. The House speaker limited debate to that change and not the substance of the bill, which the House approved 62-30 last year and the Senate approved 20-13 last month.
Under the legislation, the State Board of Education would become an authorizer and be able to overrule local school board decisions on charter applications in five counties where there are failing schools.
Those counties include the state's four largest cities: Davidson, Hamilton, Knox and Shelby. Hardeman County also would be affected.
Currently, local school boards decide whether to authorize a charter application, and opponents of the legislation say it should stay that way.
Sponsor says he would raise money for open carry
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The House sponsor of a bill seeking to do away with permit requirements to openly carry is offering to raise the estimated $100,000 cost from private sources.
Republican Rep. Micah Van Huss said in a letter to his House colleagues on Monday that he was disappointed with what he called a "bogus" cost estimate attached to the bill that he sees as an attempt to kill the measure.
The bill would eliminate the state's background and training requirements for openly carrying guns in public. It would keep the permit rules in place for concealed firearms.
The Senate passed its version of the bill on a 25-2 vote last week. Van Huss wants to pull the bill up for a floor vote without waiting for it to clear committees.
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Dunk City Is Dead, Long Live 'Legendary Breakout Year'
Florida Gulf Coast's emergence as "Dunk City" in the NCAA tournament was punctuated by the city of Fort Myers' official website adding a #DUNKCITY hashtag to its main logo.
In the aftermath of coach Andy Enfield taking the job at USC on Monday, and the subsequent mini-kerfuffles on Twitter about the Trojans trying to co-opt the brand, I was curious to see if the city was retaining its interest. Alas, the hashtag has been removed, allowing "Making history since 1886″ to stand alone as the slogan. I guess that still sort of covers the two-week phenomenon we just witnessed, but it was a touch disappointing.
But wait. What's this? A link underneath the page header for …a proclamation!??
After being greeted by a bunch of generic "Whereases" about the school and its history, things start to get awesome. The first section about the tournament run is, for some reason, in bold, and the word dunks is in quotes with a capital D –as if they were some kind of important mystery phenomenon that no Fort Myers resident was familiar with. But then #dunkcity makes an appearance and all seems right with the world.
But wait, there's more! The proclamation goes on to include a "Whereas" section that thanks the players and coaches for the excitement they generated throughout the area and, at the end, the mayor of Fort Myers proclaims the 2012-13 season to be "LEGENDARY BREAKOUT YEAR."
So much win in this, even if that sounds more like a great indie band name than the conclusion to one of the greatest phenomenons we have ever seen in college hoops. Thank you, Mayor Randall P. Henderson, Jr. May you always use your elected powers for this kind of good.


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One week after packing the contents of my small apartment into a rusty Ford Taurus wagon and driving across the country to Central New Mexico, I wandered over to the local Wells Fargo to open a bank account. Between questions about checking accounts and "free security options" the teller suddenly looked up from her long painted nails and asked, "You haven't been drinking the tap water, have you?" Yes, I had been. Alarmed, I began asking everyone I met what they knew about uranium mining and contaminated drinking water in the towns closest to my new home. Local activist Candace Head-Dylla was quick to fill me in: there are five aquifers that used to enrich the carrot fields in Milan until mining replaced agriculture as the area's major source of revenue. In 1961, the Homestake/Barrick Gold Corporation announced that four of those five water sources were unsafe to drink or use for irrigation. Although not a single health study has been conducted in the area, many residents are certain that exaggerated rates of cancer in their County was caused by seepage from radioactive waste piles.
These photographs and audio portraits were captured in towns and on tribal lands nestled between the world's largest open pit uranium mine and an enormous pile of toxic waste, or tailings pile, approximately 200 acres wide by 100 feet tall. Both sites lay open to New Mexico's powerful winds which blow harmful dust all over Central New Mexico. In the EPA's 2011 five-year review of the old Homestake/Barrick Gold mill the Agency states that ambient radon levels at the boundary of the site far exceeds levels of radiation that they consider acceptable or safe. Most of the characters in this multimedia essay have been diagnosed with cancer or negatively affected in other ways by mining activities. Through this essay I hope to document a landscape in danger (not yet endangered) and its people.
My deepest thanks goes to Kathleen Clemons, Dale Clemons, Robin Clemons, Pueblo of Acoma elders, Berleen Estevan, MASE, LACSE and so many others who shared their stories, homes and dinner tables with me.
Grants. New Mexico. 2011.
Pueblo of Acoma, NM. 2011. Senior Center Head Cook, Berleen Estevan.
Pueblo of Acoma. New Mexico. 2011. Butchering a lamb for the Day of the Dead.
Pueblo of Acoma. New Mexico. 2011.
Pueblo of Acoma. New Mexico. 2011. Edward Hunt points to ripe peaches in his backyard.
Jemez. New Mexico. 2011. Rachelle Simpson in a shallow pool.
Pueblo of Acoma. New Mexico. 2011.
Grants. New Mexico. 2011. Hummingbirds announce the beginning of Summer.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. Dale Clemons in front of the old village.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. Natural Spring.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. Senior Center, Director Robin Clemons.
Grants. New Mexico. 2011. Main Street.
Pueblo of Acoma. New Mexico. 2011. 7am.
Milan, New Mexico. 2011. Candace Head-Dylla.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. Stan Garcia on his porch.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. A Senior Center cook cleans after the 40 elders who come for lunch every day are driven back to their homes on the reservation.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. Dust storm before the rain.
Milan, New Mexico. 2011. Half a mile away from the Homestake tailings pile, the EPA has determined that ambient radon far exceeds what is considered "safe" levels of toxicity. Milan residents remember homes that were once closest to the Homestake Tailings pile but have since been purchased by the mineral extraction company and burried where their homes once stood, without explanaition. This is the site of a burried home.
Milan, New Mexico. 2011. Ex-miner.
Milan, New Mexico. 2011. Lynn Head worked for the copper mines most of his life until an accident crushed his left shoulder. When asked what he thought of people who said the uranium industry was poisoning the town he responded: "They're tree-huggers, and they can just get out if they don't like the way we're doing things here. If people say they don't want any more mining, I tell 'em, go back home and turn off the lights and live in the dark. We need energy and this is the way to get it."
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. "Lonely Rock".
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. Family gathering.
Milan, New Mexico. 2011. Children play half a mile from the Homestake Barrick-Gold mill tailings pile.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. Agnes Sanchez, 94, keeps an eye on the main road passing through the Acoma reservation.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. Danielle Clemons and Caitlin Johnson in traditional regalia during the Pueblo's feast day celebrations.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. Erwin Juanico in uniform.
Grants, New Mexico. 2011. Nora Wilson walking in the park.
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. 2011. Mount Taylor. The mountain was stripped of its title as a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) in February, 2011 after mining companies and individuals sued the New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee and Pueblo of Acoma. TCP designation expands the bureaucratic requirements that must be met before developing land of significant cultural value.
Pueblo of Acoma. New Mexico. 2011. Andres Garcia.
Pueblo of Acoma. New Mexico. 2011.
Pueblo of Laguna. New Mexico. 2011. Snowstorm.
Grants. New Mexico. 2011. Abandoned motel next to the train tracks.
Grants. New Mexico. 2011. Squatters leave behind a pair of pants and floral chair.
Grants. New Mexico. 2011. Satellites.
Grants. New Mexico. 2011. Treasure hunter.
Pueblo of Acoma. NM. 2011. Raymond Concho Senior.
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curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, RTSP, RTMP, and FILE, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, port numbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are bindings to libcurl for about 40 languages and environments.
The Tecla library provides programs with interactive command line editing facilities, similar to those of the Unix tcsh shell. It supports recall and editing of previously entered command lines, TAB completion of file names and application specific tokens, and in-line wild-card expansion of filenames. The optionally reentrant modules which perform TAB completion and wild-card expansion are also available separately for general use. The library is smaller, more modular, makes more efficient use of the heap, and has a less restrictive license than GNU readline.
MapServer is a CGI based Web mapping application development tool. It processes user defined configuration files and templates to allow for a wide variety of applications to be developed, including interactive mapping, and spatial query definition and processing. It supports several data formats. Key features include scale dependent map rendering, automatic scalebar and legend building, feature labeling with collision avoidance, logical and thematic classifications, and on-the-fly projection of raster and vector data. The application can also access other WMS servers as a cascading map server.
Poedit is a gettext translation (.po file) editor for Unix, Windows, and OS X. It aims to provide translators with a simple, easy to use user interface with all the essential tools such as spellchecker or translation memory. It can also be used to manage translations for small projects.
ZooLib allows one to write a single set of C++ sources which can be compiled into native executables for Mac OS, Windows, BeOS, or POSIX-compliant systems that use the X Window system (such as Linux). Zoolib provides a GUI toolkit with a uniquely flexible layout system. It also provides a single-file database format, TCP networking, and extensive debugging support. ZooLib applications are multithreaded. ZooLib requires only minimal support from the underlying OS and platform GUI layer, and thus could be ported to a completely new platform without too much difficulty. ZooLib is fully production quality on Windows and MacOS, completely implemented but untested on BeOS, and not yet complete on POSIX. Please note that the sources from the "demo" branch are also required to build ZooLib or to get started writing your own ZooLib applications.
BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing.
pydance is a dancing game written in Python, formerly named pyDDR. The idea is simple. There's a floor mat with arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.
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Lexington, KY—On Tuesday, March 29, the Cardinal Hill Brain Injury team brought home the Medical News MediStar Consumer First Award for Brain Injury University, a community based program that assists Brain injury Survivors and their families with achieving the goal of returning to school and increasing their network of peer friends.
In collaboration with the Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky, Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital is improving the lives of the many Kentuckians who live with a Brain Injury. Brain Injury University is an educational series specifically designed by Healthcare Professionals to assist those individuals who have suffered a brain injury to achieve the following goals: understand deficits, increase knowledge and understanding as it relates to a Brain Injury, facilitate compensatory strategies to increase independence, keep up to date with the most recent research and technology, ask questions about their injury and promote rapport with healthcare providers & other patients who have suffered a brain injury. These classes are structured to cover cognitive, social, physical and psychological aspects of a brain injury. Reference material and supplies are free to the patients and families. Participants have seen an increase in quality of life and are better aware of available community resources after participating in Brain Injury University.
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1758 N Water St, Milwaukee, WI | Directions 5320243.053822 -87.903025
Neighborhoods: Lower East Side
don't go! don't eat there – Here's the deal. First off the menu has changed so many times it has no personality. The food (currently) is a wannabe upscale fine dinnig along with the prices. Who wants to pay $16 dollars for a blue chez mac n chesse? At least make it gorgonzola. Go to their website (if it's even updated). I believe the hype on the brunch there is a crock of milwaukees' worst restaurant analysts. You can get a dish out there for half the price. There is so much more even the inspections fail. Don't go. Find a better place to impress.
Charged my card 3 times, expensive, hidden charges – This place has been renovated six times. One would think that it would improve at least slightly, but the overall experience just is not worth the money that you could spend somewhere else.
The food is average, at best. The menu is pretty scant, and the prices are high. The drinks are especially costly, and they are always trying to upsell you to the next highest liquor. They don't tell you anything costs more. For example, if you ask for a side of ketchup, that costs you .75, but if you use the ketchup on the table, it's free.
The service is SMOTHERING and sloppy.
When I ate there, they charged my card THREE times for one meal. They were three different amounts as well. I had to then wait until the money was credited to my Visa, $150! The sever never mentioned to me that she swiped my card more than once.
I would suggest that you save your money and head to somewhere less expensive with better service, or take your money to an equally pricey restaurant and at least have great service.
New Trocadero! – I had dinner at Trocadero a few days after open. There was a nice crowd. 2 bars were open, one on the main floor and one upstairs, both pretty rockin'! They pulled away from there mojitos to make AMAZING margaritas ( from scratch apparently! ) Not only the margaritas but almost the whole menu is made from scratch!?!? you can definitely taste it!!! YUM!
Best Brunch in Milwaukee – I ate the Breakfast Burger. Awesome! It's literally a giant cheeseburger with scrambled eggs on it. I was visiting family in Milwaukee and this was my sister's recomendation. She's big on brunches so I followed her lead. Trocadero has plenty of traditional brunch options in the French style. Make sure you have breakfast potatoes with whatever you get. The Bloody Mary is better in Milwaukee than any other city in the U.S. and Trocadero stands in with plenty of options here too. Throw a couple of those down!
Good outdoor dining; good brunch – I like the restaurant for brunch and after work and weekend drinks. The summer atmosphere is great. The food is pretty good but make sure you look at the menu before dining. If you are in the mood for crepes, you will not be disappointed. If you think the menu suits your tastes, you will enjoy your dining experience.
One of my top picks! – This place is great. Having lived in New York and being from Chicago when my wife and I move to MKE we were consistently disappointed by the dinning experience. This place however was a breathe of fresh air. Good food, a trendy (but friendly) crowd we've really enjoyed the few times we've gone there. Even now with our 9 month old baby the staff is great with us and her and we've enjoyed the "scene" there. In fact we went there for Mothers day with my infant daughter and my grandmother and we all loved it and had a great time. The patio is a nice break and off the beaten path so you don't have to sit on a high traffic sidewalk like other places with "outdoor seating". Only thing I would suggest is that they should implement a no smoking policy.
Hostile Hostess and Overrated Patio – We travelled an hour on a Friday for dinner here because of a reader survey saying this place has the best patio dining in Milwaukee---comparing it to New Orleans dining. One cheesy fountain, a few tropical plants and a view of the old riverbed sure didn't compare to The French Quarter or even John Hawks Pub! Our hostess was downright rude and the food so-so--highly overrated. I ordered a gimlet--not even an olive. We won't be back.
Wonderful atmosphere in a great location - good drinks – Trocadero is a regular haunt for me and I'm usually thrilled with food and pleased with the service. The menu is decent - try the soups and it's a great place for drinks and appetizers with friends. Their outdoor patio is one of the best in Milwaukee.
One sticking point is that sometimes the food is inconsistent. The salad nicoise is a good example. I've had the best and worst experience here with this classic salad. The last time I had it, the tuna was overcooked to the point of cardboard and the potatoes were weirdly black. I would have sent it back, but I was there for a business lunch and didn't have time. And while their brunch is good (don't miss the bloody marys!) skip - no run from - the chocolate croissants. They are consistenly awful - rubbery and reheated with runny chocolate.
Don't get me wrong - this is one of my fav places to hang out in Milwaukee - the atmosphere won't disappoint, the food is usually wonderful and they have a good wine list, fun drink specials and the best patio!
Bloody Marys & Weekend Brunch – First, I've eaten here at least fifty times (I am very experienced at eating out...). This isn't just about ambience or drinks, the food is always excellent. Traditional Parisian cafe atmosphere and beautiful outdoor patio. Nice selection of French wine and cheese plates for the afternoon or evening. Breakfast on weekends is superb. The bloody marys are excellent, with 8oz Heineken chaser in the bottle. Some traditional French menu staples as well. Get there early for weekend breakfast or plan on waiting. If you are waiting, stop in the front corner of the restaurant for the coffee bar or move towards the inside of the restaurant for the full bar and enjoy a drink before the meal. The patio is available all year and the garden is available during a good part of the year. Nice views from the patio too, old industrial/new residential. Plus you can see across the Milwaukee River to another neighborhood. The atmosphere is great. Very close to Brady St. area and convenient to downtown.
Great After work Spot! – Their heated outdoor patio makes this place a winner right from spring through the end of fall! The wine list is glorious. Trocadero is a good bet for an enjoyable evening.
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Welcome to Southeastern's Kingdom Diversity webpage. Our desire is to make God's Kingdom vision of people from every tribe, tongue and nation worshiping Christ together a reality on our campus and in our churches.
The issues of race and ethnicity have shaped the landscape of our society and unfortunately the same can be said about the Body of Christ. The Southern Baptist Convention's tumultuous history with race began with its establishment in 1845 with the affirmation of slavery. However in 1995, Southern Baptists publically repented of their position on slavery and earnestly desire to cultivate a denomination that represents the universality of the people of God.
As a Great Commission seminary, Southeastern affirms that racial reconciliation is hardwired into the Great Commission. To that end, the fall of 2013 marks the beginning of Southeastern's seminary-wide strategic initiative called, "Kingdom Diversity." Our desire is to recruit and equip students from every corner of the Kingdom, to serve in every context of the Kingdom. Thanks for visiting our site.
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|Time well spent: Dr. John Ritchie, Louisiana State University School of Dentistry's director of diversity and minority affairs, takes a break with nine students from seven universities who participated in LSU's Summer Enrichment Program, a six-week course that prepares college students for admission to dental school. Since 2008, 13 students in the program have been admitted to dental schools—including six who started their first year at LSU in July. Students must apply for the summer program and selections are based on grade point average, letters of recommendation and personal essays. From left are Mia Holmes, Dr. Ritchie, Kimberly Truong, Rouglas Odor, Curtis Jackson, Jasmyne Fine, Jessica Whiteside, Mai Nguyen, Kathlene Zuniga and Andrew Minias.


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April is Fair Housing Month and also marks the 45th anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discrimination in housing.
On Tuesday, the Piedmont Housing Alliance along with Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission came together to host a forum.
Members of the community came out to listen to a panel discussion that focused on two main questions: Where are the gaps in fair housing in Charlottesville? And what should communities do to promote equal housing opportunity?
"So we are talking about individual instances of discrimination," says Karen Reifenberger, Deputy Director of the Piedmont Housing Alliance. "But we are also talking about being more thoughtful as a community and actually planning and allocating resources to create equal housing opportunity and communities of opportunity."
Members of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spoke at the forum on ways they plan to help close the housing gap.
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Under an agreement with Smith Travel Research, University of South Carolina Beaufort's (USCB) Lowcountry and Resort Islands Tourism Institute (LRITI) has been collecting and analyzing 2011, 2012, and 2013 lodging indices for Beaufort, Bluffton, and Hilton Head Island. The 2012 analysis of Bluffton lodging indicated that Bluffton hotels had 57.6 percent occupancy -- outperforming the 2012 South Carolina state average occupancy of 56.4 percent and a 9.5 percent improvement over 2011.
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Recently, Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Home. Facebook Home is designed to bring the social media experience to the smartphone users of Android operated phones. The Economist reports that "this matters because more and more folks are now accessing social networks from mobile devices rather than from desktop computers and because mobile advertising revenues are growing fast, albeit from a low base. Without a robust mobile presence, Facebook could see some of its users siphoned off by rivals born in the mobile era.
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This week the golf and tourism industries are at the front and center of our regional economy. In 1969 Hilton Head Island, SC hosted the first Heritage Classic which is now referred to as the RBC Heritage. It is South Carolina's only annually held tournament stop on the PGA tour. In 2010, a Clemson/University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) study indicated that the tournament had an $80 million plus impact on Beaufort County. Since the first tournament, Hilton Head Island has been inextricably linked to the golf tourism market.
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For the President of The United States? Yes We Can. —JH
For the President of The United States? Yes We Can. —JH
Leonardo da Vinci might have made scientific studies of the vascular system and designed the steam cannon, but today he's best remembered as the painter of the Mona Lisa. Some identify Johann Sebastian Bach with his concerti, cantatas, and brilliant fantasias for the keyboard, but most know him only as the tunesmith behind that staple of afternoon weddings, "Air on the G String." It's a cruel fate, to be remembered only for your least ambitious work, as type designers from Frederic Goudy to Ed Benguiat can surely attest. But none has suffered more than the estimable Herb Lubalin, a situation which the Cooper Union will begin to correct tonight.
Lubalin's name has become convenient shorthand for his eponymous family of typefaces, ITC Lubalin Graph. The design, an okay slab serif in seventies dress, was in turn an adaptation of his sans serif design ITC Avant Garde — itself an adaptation of his earlier logotype and lettering for Avant Garde magazine. For many, Lubalin's body of work ends here, a tragedy that eclipses a whole universe of letters that came from the hand and mind of one of typography's most significant practitioners.
Tonight, the Cooper Union in New York opens Lubalin Now: the inaugural exhibit at the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. The exhibit, curated by Mike Essl and Alexander Tochilovsky, celebrates not only Lubalin's work but that of contemporary designers who channel the Lubalinesque. Just a very few of my favorites appear below; the show promises lots more, as well as an answer to an age-old question: it's Loo-bal-in, not Loob-a-lin. —JH
Lubalin Now
Opening Reception Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6:00–8:00pm
Exhibit on view through December 8, 2009
The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003
The donkey is universally recognized as the symbol of Democratic Party of the United States. Except inside voting booths in New York State, where affiliation with the Democratic party is marked by a five-pointed star. Midwestern voters indicate the Democratic ticket with a rooster, except in Missouri, where the symbol has traditionally been the Statue of Liberty — coincidentally also the symbol of the Libertarian party, which appealed to use the symbol when they joined the ballot in 1976. They've settled for using the Liberty Bell instead, though some Missouri Libertarians also use the symbol of the mule. Not the Democratic mule, mind you, the Missouri mule. The mule is the state animal of Missouri.
Those who suspect that Republican iconography will show the same mastery of political organization as the rest of that party are correct: Republican candidates are always signified by an elephant, except inside voting booths in Indiana, New York, and West Virginia, where an eagle is used instead. And in these states, as well as the 47 others, the eagle is also the national symbol of the United States itself.
The Chicago typefoundry of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler showed these "Election Typecuts" in their Catalog 25-A, published around 1930, and 78 years later I think my district is still using this same art. Cheerily Barnhart Brothers accompanied their samples with this legend:
When changes in the political situation — the birth of new parties, revision of election laws, or other causes call for new emblems or characters other than shown above, our facilities enable us to produce the material promptly at moderate cost.
I'm ready. You? —JH
It took a visit to Finland in 1996 to realize that Nokia the cellphone company and Nokia the tire company were one and the same. Apparently these are merely the latest stops on a very long journey: Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill, on a channel of rapids between two Finnish lakes, all of which goes to explain why the company's original logo was this slightly alarmed salmon.
Neatorama is running a very entertaining look at the evolution of tech companies' logos, which includes such well-known corkers as IBM's grand typographic globe, and the short-lived Apple logo (that still makes me hear strains of "Carry On My Wayward Son.") Less publicized, with good reason, is the original Canon logo — née Kwanon — which had all the worldly sophistication of a Charlie Chan movie. I'm gravely concerned for the Motorola logo, though: it's memorable, distinctive, and typographically lovely; there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, which means it's probably next in line for the ax. (Xerox, I'm looking at you.) So I'm adding this one to the H&FJ Endangered Logo Watchlist, and offering 3:2 odds on a tragic redesign before the decade's out. —JH.
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REALLY surprised no one has brought up Delonte West as a fill in. He's a loose cannon, but Boston seems to be able to deal with that at the PG spot now. He's probably the best cheap option on the market for a team that desperately needs a cheap option to avoid the hard cap.
Court Vision: Wrapping up the Rajon Rondo injury reaction
By Ben Golliver
• The Celtics announced Sunday that All-Star point Rajon Rondo suffered a torn ACL in his right knee that will require season-ending surgery.
• Rob Mahoney here at The Point Forward offered a thorough breakdown of life without Rondo.
• Jackie MacMullan of ESPNBoston.com with a great behind-the-scenes look at how news of the injury spread during Sunday's game between the Celtics and Heat in Boston.
His teammates played on, oblivious that their long-term fortunes had just suffered a serious blow. The Heat also were unaware of Rondo's plight — until 2:50 p.m., when Dwyane Wade left the court and entered the visiting locker room, presumably to use the facilities.
"What's going on?" he asked me as he walked by.
"Rondo has a torn ACL," I answered.
"No, please. Don't tell me that," Wade said with a grimace. "Oh, that's awful. Now listen, we have a bad history, but I never wish that on anyone."
• Paul Pierce finds out the bad news from Doris Burke live on air. Video via YouTube user NBAUS3030.
• Jessica Camerato of CSNNE.com reports from the postgame locker room.
"It's a blow, man. I'm not even going to front, it was a blow," said Kevin Garnett. "We were in here just talking about the game, and then he walks in and 'Do (Rondo is) really hype. He was quiet and the staff came in and told us what's going on."
• Camerato also rounds up all the Twitter well-wishes to Rondo, including notes from Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
• Celtics coach Doc Rivers is most definitely not taking the news lying down, WEEI.com notes.
"Obviously the Rondo news is pretty tough," Rivers said. "I knew it before the game; no one else knew it. I just didn't think it was any time to tell any of our guys that. I told them after the game. Pretty emotional in the locker room."
"Well, you can write the obituary. I'm not," Rivers said. "You can go ahead. But I'm not. We won tonight, and so the way I look at it is: we're going to stay in there. In my opinion, we're going nowhere."
• Mark Murphy of the Boston Herald has Celtics president Danny Ainge's reaction.
"We weren't going to trade Rondo," Ainge said flatly. "But I'm not going to bring someone in now who is just going to sit on the bench. We could sign a couple of players to minimum contracts, but that's all we can do right now. We have to see whether someone becomes available through trade or free agency who can actually crack our rotation.
"Right now I'm looking to give the guys we have a chance to play," he said. "Then we'll see what happens in the next few weeks."
• Paul Flannery of SBNation.com explores the Celtics' tight spot.
The reality is they are up against the hard cap, meaning they can barely afford to take on any more salary and even if they could it's not like there are veteran point guards waiting by the phone who could make a difference. Not to mention adding another guard would do nothing to address their most pressing needs, which are size and scoring.
There's a reason Ainge has been so patient this year and it's not just because he was waiting to see if his team would find itself. The Celtics best hope was always to fix themselves from within. Of course Ainge will listen to any and all offers, but he doesn't have to make a panic trade to salvage a season that may have been beyond repair anyway.
"We won tonight and the way I look at it is we're going to stay in there," Rivers said. "In my opinion, we're going nowhere."
That may be true in more ways than one.
• Jeff Clark of Celtics Blog addresses the "What's next?" question.
More pressing is what Danny Ainge will do in the near future. If he still wishes to dismantle the team, he's got a few pieces that he could move for marginal value. But he'd also be "selling" at a huge disadvantage due to having zero leverage. So again, nickels on the dollar if that.
Does he then make a move to patch some holes (namely at point guard and center) and hope for the best? Perhaps, but he can't do that at the expense of the future. So don't count on bringing in Pau Gasol and some point guard while giving up Avery Bradley and/or Jared Sullinger. That cannot happen.
So we're kind of back where we started. Ainge will make a deal if it makes sense for the present and the future (which has always been the case). The big difference is that the present just became a whole lot cloudier.
• Zach Lowe of Grantland.com assesses the Celtics' outlook this season, suggesting trade proposals involving Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce.
All that said, the Celtics are still a decent bet to make the playoffs, if only because no one has a clue when Andrew Bynum will return. The Sixers can improve their odds by making up ground in their next seven games, all at home against some solid competition. Detroit and Toronto loom as possible threats, but both have played easy schedules, and though Detroit has recovered after a rough start and found a useful bench unit, neither projects as a team that is going to play well over .500 the rest of the way.
But sneaking into the postseason for a whitewashing at the hands of the Heat is not a worthy goal — not if Boston can get something useful in exchange for Garnett and Pierce.
• Ken Berger of CBSSports.com floats a possible Celtics/Grizzlies trade scenario.
Before Rondo's knee surgery was even scheduled, rival executives already began speculating that the loss of the Celtics' best player could accelerate the inevitable rebuild. Much of the speculation, for good reason, surrounds Pierce, whose scoring panache could push a contender over the top without compromising the plan for the future. Pierce's contract, with only $4 million guaranteed next season, is as tradeable as it gets in the NBA.
One team that rival execs expect to be at the forefront of the Pierce pursuit is Memphis, which delayed but did not solve its long-term payroll concerns by getting under the luxury-tax line with last week's trade with Cleveland. While Memphis can survive for the rest of this season without trading Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph or Marc Gasol, it still cannot sustain such a top-heavy payroll for the next two seasons. Pierce would keep the Grizzlies dangerous — arguably, make them more dangerous — for the rest of this season, and allow them to reorganize their spending as soon as next season.
• Kevin Pelton of ESPN.com (Insider) writes that the Celtics might not totally fall apart without Rondo.
They're 3-3 overall when Rondo has been either suspended or injured, but given the difficulty of those games — four of the first five came on the road against likely playoff teams — a surprising fact emerges: The Celtics have been better without Rondo than they've been with him in 2012-13.
That matches what plus-minus statistics show this season. According to NBA.com/Stats, the Celtics have been 1.6 points better per 100 possessions with Rondo on the bench, a difference that can be traced almost entirely to their scoring more points without him. Though the team has shot better with the NBA's assist leader on the floor, other lineups get to the free throw line more frequently because of Rondo's reluctance to draw shooting fouls.
• Matt Moore of CBSSports.com wonders whether a shake-up will actually take place.
There have been increasing signs that Boston may be forced to consider a move or moves. Danny Ainge, though, has always tried to downplay those ideas and remain patient. Ainge has spoken often of how the Bird-era Celtics hung on too long, but he seems emotionally attached to this core that netted the team a champioship and multiple Eastern Conference championship appearances. With a weak Eastern Conference and little chance of getting superb return for their older players, will a blowup really change anything? These questions and more will face Ainge in the coming days.
• Kelly Dwyer at Ball Don't Lie looks at who should replace Rajon Rondo in next month's All-Star Game, noting that Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving will likely move into the starting role for the East.
Brook Lopez should have been on the All-Star team to begin with. My appreciation for Luol Deng's work was stated above, nothing should take away from what he's given to the Bulls (and opposing small forwards, for that matter), but Lopez has enjoyed the better year despite Deng playing 427 more minutes than Lopez this season. Brook's pick and roll work remains sub-standard, but he has improved overall defensively and his Net teammates have worked wonders in making his biggest weakness less glaring. This is far from an All-Star argument, but 18.6 points, 7.3 rebounds and 52 percent shooting in just 29 minutes a game should drive it home.
Replacing a point guard with a center – the fourth center on the East's roster, depending on what you think of Kevin Garnett's role – isn't a problem. We're not picking sides. We're not building a team, fantasy or otherwise. We're picking the 12 best players in the Eastern conference, and if they all shift toward a certain position … who cares? This is an exhibition to be played for fun. At the end of a career we rank All-Star berths, and not "missed the team that year because they really needed help on the wing."
• Andrew Sharp of SBNation on Rondo's personality.
Rondo's not gone for long, and this isn't a eulogy or anything. In the grand scheme of things, missing a year shouldn't be that big of a deal, and he'll be back melting our brains soon enough. But to understand why basketball addicts were so depressed by Sunday's news, you have to understand Rondo as more than just a good player. His weird, OCD antics will make you laugh. He'll make you gawk as he wraps his endless limbs around and somehow through the defense. His presence will makes the Celtics competitive, always, even though he'll sometimes disappear and drive you crazy. And then sometimes he'll hit another level where he becomes unstoppable and leaves everyone kinda dumbfounded.
It's all there, distilled into one gawky weirdo. The guy who's incredible and hilarious, tougher and smarter than anyone realizes, moody or the perfect teammate depending on whose story you're reading, but always hypnotic because you never know what's coming next, even as you're trying to figure out what you just saw. The current Celtics team may be dead now, but here's to hoping Rondo comes back and better and stranger than ever, because there's just nobody else like him. The one NBA superstar who doesn't fit with the rest sorta personifies why we love the whole league.
• Tom Haberstroh of ESPN Insider has more trade scenarios, including Garnett/Pierce packages to the Lakers, Jazz and Timberwolves.
• Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe reports that former Celtics point guard Keyon Dooling would consider a comeback.
Dooling, 32, retired after last season following shocking revelations that he was sexually abused as a child. He joined the Celtics front office in October and has been working in an advisory role, taking selected road trips with the club.
He said he has entertained thoughts of return to the court, and the Celtics now have a need for a veteran point guard.
"I'm not in shape, but I would [consider it]," he told the Globe after the Celtics' 100-98 double-overtime win over the Heat Sunday at TD Garden.
• Kevin Scheitrum has a list of the best available D-League point guards.


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I am home sick. I have been home sick for a few days now. I got a sore throat and I can't ... eat anything and get it down. LOL. I took a Tylenol and it was stuck in there for a day, not helping the pain or the fever. So, I made a peanut butter sandwich thinking it would unstick it, then, while chewing it, I thought, " what if the sandwich gets stuck," I will become a skinny Mama Cass. Did that really happen to her? I hope not. She was a great singer.
I rented the movie, The Caller. Save your $! I want my money back. I am going to wait on the new movie, The Zookeeper.
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The partnership has reportedly resulted in two million new subscribers for Netflix, more original series in production and, most importantly, the validity of a new distribution model. With all 13 episodes of season one made available to stream instantly, "House of Cards" became the first TV show to forgo weekly broadcast scheduling and instead embrace a growing demand amongst audiences' with an interest in consuming shows at their own pace.
"House of Cards" may have originated from a novel, but its roots may go back even further.
"It really started with 'Richard III,'" Spacey explained, offering an analogy for the show's pointed indictment of corruption and innate human selfishness. Spacey, having played Richard III on stage the prior year, got early and unexpected experience with a character equally as ruthless as his Congressman Francis Underwood. "Working as Richard really helped me," he continued.
Not only were Richard III's ideals a point of reference, but the functionality of his stage performance and in particular the theater's narrative technique of directly addressing the audience informed Spacey's portrayal of a politician who'll stop at nothing to satisfy both his personal and professional urges. "I saw the glee of the audience becoming co-conspirators," he explained of the fourth wall-breaking expositions. "I started to understand that relationship."
"House of Cards" may have subject matter in common with shows we've seen before, but the approach is something altogether new.
"The West Wing," probably the most famous and popular political television show of all time, has been a point of reference for some. But "House of Cards" "is fundamentally different from 'The West Wing,'" according to Willimon. "'The West Wing' is what we hope government could be. 'House of Cards' is probably closer to what it's actually like."
And their method of shooting -- two episodes shot simultaneously with the same director -- has further influenced the feel of the show and has separated "House of Cards" from those that came before. "We didn't want to do a pilot. We just wanted to tell a story," Spacey said. "I don't feel like I'm in episodic TV. I feel like I'm in a really long film." Actors Corey Stoll and Michael Kelly agreed, comparing the shooting method and unrestricted narrative of the show to "the golden age of film in '70s" and the experience akin to "shooting a little movie at a time."
Netflix's risk paid off for both the industry and the audience.
The rise of the mainstream movie industry in the '90s eventually devolved into a new millennium of tentpole films and effects-driven franchises. "It created a void," Spacey said. "No writer or director worth his salt wouldn't try and fill that void," he continued, noting the widespread move of American filmmakers from Hollywood to television. When asked about the risk and the resulting revenue that Netflix has accumulated because of the show's success, Sakina Jaffrey simply said that "Netflix is making money by saying, 'Audiences are smart.'"
"The film and TV industry can learn the lesson that the music industry never learned," Spacey added. "You don't need to give the audience everything on a plate. The unspoken is powerful," he continued. Willimon agreed: "Netflix is always looking to shake things up." They've given audiences "viewer empowerment: a choice." But he was quick to reiterate that just because they decided to make every episode available instantly, that "doesn't necessitate binge watching" on the part of the audience. "They have the option."


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Local school children got three days off and road crews spent hours sanding roads and watching the sky, but by Thursday morning life in Calhoun County was largely back to normal.
Forecasters predicted 2 to 3 inches of snow for some parts of the county, but only about an inch fell in the Anniston area by Thursday morning. It was enough to cover lawns and rooftops, but too little to cause as many travel problems as were predicted. Most of the snow had melted away by mid-afternoon.
Temperatures in the Anniston area stayed above freezing longer than was predicted, said Kristina Sumrall, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's office in Calera, which meant rain instead of snow and ice, until about sundown Wednesday.
The top of Lookout Mountain in Cherokee County recorded 6 inches of snowfall by Thursday morning, the highest amount of snow recorded in the state, Sumrall said.
Fool me once ...
After the surprise winter storm two weeks ago that caught the area off guard, city and county officials prepared for the worst by ordering more sand and positioning vehicles loaded with it strategically throughout the county.
Brian Connery, administrative services manager for the Calhoun County Highway Department, estimated the total number of labor hours, including overtime, attributable to the storm was 1,731 at a cost of around $27,554. County road crews spread about 100 tons of material on roads at a cost of $985, Connery said.
The amount of sand spread Wednesday barely put a dent in the county's stockpiles, said County Engineer Brian Rosenbalm.
Rosenbalm said that when ice comes to the county, Whites Gap Road and Cottaquilla Road between Jacksonville and White Plains are typically the most treacherous. Crews began sanding them at about 1 a.m. Thursday, he said, but the roads were never particularly dangerous, and they were never closed.
Roy Webb Road and Rabbittown Road south of Piedmont probably received the most slush, Rosenbalm said, but again, no major problems in clearing any of it.
"By the time we loaded up and got out to most of these places, there was nothing," Rosenbalm said. "It just sort of came in and went out without too much of a hassle."
All roads in Calhoun County were open by 8 a.m. Thursday with the exception of Bain's Gap Road between McClellan and White Plains, which opened at 10:30 a.m.
Bob Dean, Anniston's public works director, said Thursday morning he hadn't yet calculated the storm-attributable costs, but that the city planned well and kept payroll costs to a minimum by rotating shifts.
"Everything went better than expected," Dean said.
Dean said crews did sand a few bridges and along Greenbrier Dear Road on Wednesday, but it never got cold enough to freeze those areas over.
"That was about the only action. Otherwise, it was a quiet night," Dean said. "That was a good thing. We were ready for the worst."
Dean said he planned to bring in a skeleton crew of workers Thursday night in the event roads remain wet and freeze. Temperatures were expected to drop below freezing Thursday night.
"If we get through tonight I think that wraps up the whole thing," Dean said.
Even if the predicted snowfall amounts had shown this time, Dean said, it would have been a much different situation than the storm two weeks ago that left drivers stranded, clogging roads and making rescue efforts and cleanup difficult.
This time, at least, everyone knew to stay home, he said.
To the east
Tree branches that fell onto power lines knocked out electrical power to about 1,900 Alabama Power customers in Cleburne County for about three hours Wednesday afternoon, said Alabama Power spokeswoman Allyson Tucker.
That power outage occurred before the worst of the snow and ice came later that day, Tucker said, and was likely caused by the heavy rains and winds.
Even still, officials in Cleburne County and the city of Heflin prepared for the worst as well.
Shannon Robbins, Cleburne County engineer, said that aside from some bridges and higher-altitude spots, the county's streets were passable all day Wednesday and again early the next morning.
Robbins and Keith Yancy, Heflin's Street Department supervisor, ordered sand to replace what was used in the last storm. They scheduled crews at the ready to combat the coming ice and snow.
County Administrator Steve Swafford said the preparations took a toll on county resources, but not excessively.
The county paid some overtime and doubled up on communication staff, but those labor costs were offset by the snow days taken by non-essential staff at county offices, Swafford said.
Those employees used vacation or sick time to cover the snow days, and that time was already accounted for in the budget when the employees earned it, he said.
The Heflin City Council decided to pay employees who were asked to take snow days rather than require them to use vacation or sick time, said City Clerk Shane Smith. Still, between the January storm and this week's predicted storm, the city incurred less than $5,000 in extra expenses, Smith said.
That includes overtime for street department employees, a $15 per call paid to firefighters who responded to 28 accidents during the January snow storm and supplies the city would have had to replenish anyway, Smith said.
The employees would have been paid for their work if the weather emergency hadn't been called; so no extra costs were incurred there, he said.
Swafford said the true cost of a weather emergency doesn't occur in the budget, it occurs in the morale of the employees who serve during the stressful time.
"It's more taxing on people's emotions and people's state of mind," Swafford said. "It's about the stress it puts on the system. We want things back to normal."
Staff writer Eddie Burkhalter: 256-235-3563. On Twitter @Burkhalter_Star.
Staff writer Laura Camper: 256-235-3545. On Twitter @LCamper_Star.


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Thank you so much Jen for your so kind words!
OMG Sam, your flower painting(s) is(are) awesome! I looked at your web site too. You are a master! I feel I can reach out & touch your delicate Tea Rose petals. I used to have a Rose garden but it was just too much to keep up with. I'll just sit back and admire your "rose garden"!
Comments and critiques are welcome.
Jen, I like it so far.
Charlie Gunn
C&C welcomed
HAHAHAHA FRED!!! Love your Alfa-bet Santa! I bet he fits down chimneys easier than our old chubby Santa!
Cristina ~ How special your three paintings are! The two winter scenes look just like home now and the third painting "Summer Memories" makes ME wish I was there too! The little water splashes on the near rocks are especially nice! The way you sometimes portray your figures facing away gives the paintings such a wistful atmosphere. Love them!
Hello Jen ~ You are lucky to have a studio to go to!! Your daisy pastel has a nice perspective. I like super-close ups. I thought you were drawing an angel perched on the flower. Can't wait to see it finished and I'll stop jumping to conclusions!!!
Thank you Nealey, your comments are so generous and lovely, I am glad you like my works!
Fred, I love your Alpha-Bet Santa in the C sleigh and the colorful earth in the background. Still trying to figure out the symbolism of the M deers.
Cristina, I love the colors in Sun Shy and the reflections in the water. Algeria is a delightful winter scene. I really like the way your handled the snow and the textures on the snowman. The three children look great and colorful - a super focal point. Summer Memories is very lovely. Wonderful colors in the water, the rocks, the sky, the sand and the girl. It's a very charming painting.
Jen, you have a great start on the white daisy and butterfly. I like all the color in the background. The center of the daisy looks real good.
Jose, Charlie, Cristine, Jen and Nealey, I truly appreciate the wonderful and encouraging comments on my white rose.
Sam/Sammy C & C Welcome
Visit my blog at www.artbysamh.blogspot.com
Fred, you have certainly captured the surprise of seeing this wild Santa. Love it's hat.
Sam, wonderful rose, such delicate looking petals. The colours are wonderful and really illustrate the different colours of white. This is beautiful.
Cristina, your paintings are lovely. The first winter painting has a nice warm sky and water reflections and the snow is sparkling. Very nice. The children making snowmen is such fun in the snow. This one warms your heart. The summer surf has lots of wonderful whites that spray and sparkle. The gulls flying and boats make for a very nice summer seaside painting. Lovely uses of white with its many colours.
Bonnie C & C most welcome / appreciated
Everyone has added beautiful art this month. I'm so prove of you all, sorry but I'm to far behind to start commenting on everything but I am looking at everything. Joyce
All C & C's always welcome
Jen, you are doing a great job on the daisy. The background has such depth. So glad you gave us all the different colours you use. The daisy is standing out beautifully.
Sam and Bonnie thank you so much for your so kind words,greatly appreciated!
Sorry, seem to have missed at least one page on the Forum...simply don't have much time to browse these days but Sam's, Jen's and Cristinas work is all very appealing even though Jen's isn't finished yet.
Glad I work mainly in my kitchen so that the weather doesn't stop me when I do have time to paint!!!
feel free to make constructive c/c...no digital alterations please
Karen, you did such a good job showing that white winter scenes aren't really white - a lovely painting.
Sam, your white rose is delicate and exquisite ...
Fred, the Alpha-Bet Santa is so imaginative and the expressions on Bennie's and Ruthie's faces are priceless.
Comments and critiques are welcomed and appreciated.
Jen, I love your approach to the daisy - you have such a vigorous, vibrant style. And I second the comments about how wonderful it is that you go to the studio to paint with others.
Cristina, your work - both landscapes and people is so distinctively recognizable and lovely. The colors and reflections in "Sun Shy" are beautiful, and the children playing in the snow are so charming. The painting of memories of summer is beautiful, too - you are so adept at catching people in movement.
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Bayonne is the telephony server of the GNU project. It offers a script-driven threaded multi-line state event telephony service on GNU/Linux, xBSD, and Microsoft Windows for building voice response systems, and uses telephony plugins for runtime driver configuration. It also features "TGI" for making Perl applications "telephony aware". It may be used to build telephony-based system administration, home automation, automated attendant, v-commerce, and voice messaging systems.
FrAid (Fr[actal] Aid) is a programming language that is appropriate for mathematical computations, visualization, batch processing, and more. It features both a standalone application that provides a programming environment for the language and a system for integrating the language with Java. The Java interface allows mathematical equations and formulas to be used with Java code, making it easier to process numerical computations, symbolic computations, imaging, CAD, and more.
PostScript::CDCover generates a Postscript program that prints a CD cover and backlabel, with contents displayed as a tree of directories and files. The module ships with a stand-alone, ready-to-use script, pscdcover, that takes the directory tree of a CD-ROM as input and generates a cover from it. The output can be directly fed to a PostScript printer, but it is designed to be easily editable (should one wish to remove unwanted directory entries, for example).
Video Conference Flash Plugins provides Flash/ActionScript 3 plugins that provide the minimum functionality for accessing a webcam and video - live or recorded - from a Flash Media Server such as OSflash Red5, FMS, or tape/rtmpy. The plugins take "FlashVars" parameters to control almost everything. They can be used to create video conferencing Web sites, video chat sites, or YouTube clones.
Audiality is a highly scalable and portable audio engine and synthesizer. MIDI files are used in combination with scripting and modular synthesis, to minimize file sizes and maximize flexibility. Audiality can be used as a music and sound effects player in multimedia productions, or as a realtime MIDI synthesizer.
ALSA MIDI Kommander is a DCOP interface exposing many ALSA Sequencer features for shell scripts, Kommander scripts, or KDE programs requiring MIDI sequencer services. A few utilities are included, which can be used both as programming examples and as real work tools. The main program, "kaseq" is a single executable used as a DCOP service program. It runs as a daemon, allowing only a single running instance, and provides a system tray icon to give visual feedback for MIDI activity and a way to control the program's execution.
C-Cramp (the C-Cramp College Radio Audio Management Program) is a Web-based frontend to MySQL for managing the types of things that small radio stations might need: audio files, data, and "metadata"; DJ and staff information, schedules, live music and program logs, and all sorts of other data. Currently, a cross-platform PHP application is the focus of the project, but more features and types of programs are planned that will hopefully enable easier playback, storage, loading, and entering for all types of applicable data.
This is the full source release of the "equalize_it" C=64 music disk, scripted in TKS and powered by EQU, SidPlay2, SDL, libpng, zlib, and OpenGL. "Equalize it" is a nostalgic journey through 20 years of C=64 SID music featuring many well known SID composers like Jeff, Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard, Mitch'n'Dane, Reyn Ouwehand, Matt Gray, and many more.
A tool that analyzes RCS files and emits an equivalent history in the form of a fast-import stream.
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Year End Review: Guide to Financial Freedom
Many of the columns in this space have reviewed various components of a sound personal financial plan. Every December I recommend that individuals take a close look at their personal financial plans and assess the progress or lack of progress made toward their stated goals. Not only is it logical to do such a review as we approach the end of the year, it is also timely as the holiday season accounts for the greatest portion of personal discretionary spending each year. Taking stock of our financial well being at this time may support modifying our holiday spending one way or another, which in turn directly impacts our financial plan. Furthermore, as the tax season is right around the corner, it is helpful to review any elements of the plan which require action before year end from a tax planning perspective.
I look at a personal financial plan from four perspectives: budgeting, spending (cash flow management), investing, and periodic review. I try to anticipate the cash flow requirements associated with each of the first three segments, and then make modifications as I review the annual results.
The itemization within each category below can be used to serve as a template, and should be modified to meet your specific needs. It is best to actually lay out the various elements of the template on a spreadsheet, either hand written or computer generated, and actually have a document to refer to for family discussion and ongoing planning.
Review of Performance
The most important aspect of the road to financial freedom is reviewing the results we achieve through planning and budgeting, and then making adjustments to the plan as warranted. There will always be unexpected expenses. Things we cannot anticipate will arise and cause us to go to the emergency fund; if there is no emergency fund we may need to borrow short term to meet the needs. Occasionally there are pleasant unanticipated events: an inheritance, a year end bonus, or a planned and budgeted expense that comes in under budget. It is important to modify the plan in response to both favorable and unfavorable events.
Personal financial planning and budgeting is not only about the future. While it is important to provide for our financial future, we must not lose sight of the fact that we live in the present. Life is much more enjoyable when we have planned our finances in such a way as to remove the stress associated with the uncertainty caused by unexpected financial burdens. I made reference to short term borrowing above, which at times may be a necessity. Taking a loan for 12, 18, 24 months to put our financial plan back on track is often a necessity. As long as we maintain the discipline to shop for the best terms (the credit union would be my first stop), borrow only what we need, and set a repayment schedule that fits into our monthly income stream, we will soon be back on track toward achieving the longer term goals. Current interest rate levels are the lowest they have been since the 1950s, which affords some comfort in the event that we need to borrow.
In conclusion, the basic concepts of planning, common sense, and a desire to achieve both short term and long term goals all go a long way toward achieving financial freedom.
©Patrick J. Catania 2010
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Saints Lose Heartbreaker to Anderson in 12 Innings, 2-0
DAHLONEGA, GA – The North Georgia baseball team dropped their first extra innings contest of the season Wednesday evening, falling 2-0 to Anderson in nonconference action at Bob Stein Stadium.
The Saints (16-17) left 10 runners on base for the third consecutive game, while Anderson (12-30) snapped a four-game losing streak against North Georgia with the win.
The Trojans scored a pair of unearned runs in the top of the 12th to steal the victory.
The bottom of the Anderson order started the rally as the eight-hole hitter Thomas Padro led off the inning with a walk, and after a sac bunt moved him over, Zach Reeves sent a screaming line drive to left field.
Saints leftfielder Tremayne Toorie came up firing forcing Anderson skipper Joe Miller to hold Padro at third. Toorie's throw went over the cutoff man's head and Reeves went racing towards second base. Saints catcher Eason Spivey tried to gun Reeves down, but airmailed his throw into centerfield allowing both Trojans to come around and score.
Reese Patten was the tough-luck loser as he worked 2.1 innings, while Riley McDermott picked up his first win of the year for the Trojans.
Kenny Bellavance led the Saints struggling offensive attack going 2-for-4 with a walk, while Travis Naraine and Terrell Jones had multi-hit games as well for the Saints.
The inability to string hits together continues to plague the Saints, as they had more than one hit an inning just once in the 12 innings of play today.
The Saints look to get back on track and snap their two-game losing streak this weekend, April 6 and 7, when they welcome in Columbus State in Peach Belt Conference action.


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What is Congestive Heart Failure?
Heart failure describes the condition where the heart is not pumping at full efficiency and cannot keep up with the blood flow demand from the body's organs.
When the heart no longer pumps as it should, the organs in the body become deprived of oxygen and nutrients, and symptoms soon arise.